"I was put in solitary confinement in what was called the 'dark cell'. It's not an ordinary prison cell. It's totally dark, totally quiet. usually you could not hear or see anything either inside or outside your cell. To intimidate me, the Internal Security Department officers told me...

I was told by the IO in the first investigation, "I am the one doing the questioning" when I repeatedly asked him why he was asking me certain questions which I felt were irrelevant. This might not be out of line, as he did try to maintain his cool but I just wanted to put this down a...

Former political prisoner Vincent Cheng describes his arrest in 1987 by the secret police who entered his home at 5am in the morning. Cheng was held without trial for 3 years under the Internal Security Act (ISA). This speech was recorded in Singapore at the book launch of Beyond The ...

I derive no inspiration from my country's current (and past) government leaders. My only source of patriotism is drawn from the scarifices made by political dissidents, both past and present, who has/had been persecuted, imprisoned and vilified by their own government for their belief...

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As I walked through the doors of the interrogation room, a freezing coldness immediately wrapped itself around me ... I had lost all sense of time. I had been standing there under the pitiless glare of the spotlights. I felt the urge to go to the toilet. I told them. Two Gurkha guards...

Lee Tse Tong was arrested on 8 October 1963. He was held under the Internal Security Act until November 1967. In that month, he was released after bringing a successful application for a writ ofhabeas corpus but was immediately rearrested under the ISA. He was then deprived of his cit...

I'm a Singaporean who survived 15 months of police investigation for the making of banned short film 'Singapore Rebel', deemed to be an illegal political film under the law. Has since followed up with 'Zahari's 17 Years', a documentary on an ex-political detainee, and 'Speakers Corner...